I often see a wasp in summer, dragging around a spider larger than itself, whose legs it has have ripped off the spider’s paralysed body. The wasp places the body in its egg chamber, all nice and fresh for the wasp’s larvae to eat when they hatch. Horror movie stuff, but that’s Nature sometimes. She doesn’t have human morality.

But occasionally it’s the other way around. I found this struggle on my umbrella yesterday.

What a drama!!
We saw a spider from your general area (Bellingen) which looked the size of a saucer as it moved across the ceiling in our holiday rental. I was terrified and had to “forget about it”, in order to go to sleep. Yours is nice and harmless up close…